That ascii game with the face reminds me of an old game I had on the Amstrad, called 'caves' or something, there was a top down ascii view of a cave, and you had to escape, avoiding the obstacles, collecting potions and stuff. It was fully scrolling and colourful and had incessant PC speaker music. And there were some river rapids which got you into an infinite loop of currents if you moved just right, so you had to switch the computer off, you couldn't save or exit or anything.
Either that or Rogue, which I never played much, I kept getting killed by snakes.
Actually, I might try and remake that, although I haven't had a very good result from filling the screen with ascii, see my 'enter the matrix' game in the 20 line challenge for that.
Once I was but the learner,
now, I am the Master.
